Black recording artist say's we've got to get kids away from violent music

[MaryL]

Rap has had far more influence, bigger than rock music or jazz. And why that is, is beyond me. It is a artistic nether land, junk, We used to like Herman's Hermits song about Henry the VIII, but now we have matured with ditties about rape, murder and hate. That's liberalism for ya.

 

[SAYIT]

I pretty much listen to everything from rock to rap to country and some reggae thrown in for good measure. It really has to do with having the ability to understand it's just entertainment and not a life map...

I know a dozen (or more) guys who did just that with a movie ... The Godfather.

 

[MaryL]

Black artist to me are B.B King, Billie Holiday. Musicians, artists, Rap performers wouldn't understand art and subtlty. Rap BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, all sound and fury, signifying NOTHING.

 

[SAYIT]

Rap music didn't mold society ... it reflected it.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that.

Yanno, you're allowed to disagree without the snarky assholeness.

 

[SAYIT]

Black artist to me are B.B King, Billie Holiday. Musicians, artists, Rap performers wouldn't understand art and subtlty. Rap BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, all sound and fury, signifying NOTHING.

In fact, signifying the fury of today's American youth. Think about what grunge music said about that bunch.

 

[MaryL]

Rap doesn't reflect my world. It is popular, it is a form the reflects the times, like Jazz or Swing or the Blues. Thing here is, those folks had to have talents to preform. Rappers don't have the same musical chops as past musicians, they are posers, plain pure and simple. And they are getting by popularity ALONE. That itself is disgusting.

 

[MaryL]

Black artist to me are B.B King, Billie Holiday. Musicians, artists, Rap performers wouldn't understand art and subtlty. Rap BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, all sound and fury, signifying NOTHING.

In fact, signifying the fury of today's American youth. Think about what grunge music said about that bunch.

Kurt Cobain ate a shotgun. I despised Grunge, but it took talent and they didn't sell out. Teen spirit. They could play instruments and they actually meant something outside of a profit margin. Rap is talentless dreck being sold for profit by drones to make money, not for the love of music. Ya know?

 

[SAYIT]

Black artist to me are B.B King, Billie Holiday. Musicians, artists, Rap performers wouldn't understand art and subtlty. Rap BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, all sound and fury, signifying NOTHING.

In fact, signifying the fury of today's American youth. Think about what grunge music said about that bunch.

Kurt Cobain ate a shotgun. I despised Grunge, but it took talent and they didn't sell out. Teen spirit. They could play instruments and they actually meant something outside of a profit margin. Rap is talentless dreck being sold for profit by drones to make money, not for the love of music. Ya know?

Different kinds of music, different message. In the case of grunge it was teen angst. With rap it is their fury. Artists of both genres were more than happy to make the money.

 

[MaryL]

Rage against the machine makes a lot of molla getting paid to rap against hypocrisy. But don't RAGE too much against the people that profit off your hackneyed ham handed crap and the ignorant hypnotized audience , hell no, can't do THAT. Rap is so mean spirited an phony, $$$$$, that is all it is about.

 

[Asclepias]

Here is one of those dangerous Rap songs you white people are afraid of. However, I think every Black man with a son should hear this.



A few jewels to my son...Knowledge is wealth.
First law of survival...preserve yourself.
Remember courage dont come from the gun
its what you made of
A coward is too scared to face what he afraid of.

I want you to walk strong in life and be a man.
You got to get from A to B den make a plan
Put your work in and grind hard.
Watch out for police in these streets
cause where they want to see you is behind bars.

Life is hard...you got to try hard.
Know yourself..Dont be prayin to no white god
Tell dem girls the truth...show respect.
If they cant accept you for you... then tell em step.
No regrets..

and that crack rock... as real as it gets
I dont want to see you smokin nor dealin that shit.
and if you got to get high then get weeded
and even that you really dont need
but we all go through it

I'm give it to you real...no gaa gaa goo goo
Cause if I lie to you what good thats gone do you?

Every black man that has a son, or do you mean every black man that actually lives in the same house with his son ?

Doesnt make a difference. If a Black man has a son he should be listening to that song. Hell...even if he doesnt have kids.

 

[Asclepias]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Rap music is akin to porn, no other way of putting it. Secondly, Auto tune, Did Beethoven or the Beatles need a computer to tweak a inability to harmonize? A prolonged mindless beat driven by massive woofers can't hide talentless hacks. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM and people saying F*ck and N*gger and Bitch over and over again...really?

White people invented porn due to being sexually repressed. Give me a break.

 

[Asclepias]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Only a retard would think Rap led to social decline. If you meant being white became less attractive you may have an argument.

It was a main ingredient in the asphalt mix that paved the road to the ethical and moral destruction.

White ethics and morals were always based on hypocrisy anyway. Good riddance. If you mean Rap destroyed that then bravo for Rap.

Well white liberals certainly snookered your community back in the 60's when they put the black family unit on the road to ruin by creating programs that made the government the man of the house.
Your community followed the liberal pied pipers right to the edge of the cliff, and the black family structure went right over. The results today, are the places like Baltimore.

There was no snookering. Only a fool is unable to look back and see it was an orchestrated effort to destroy the Black community. Luckily we are a strong and resilient people. Thats why I find so much amusement in silly white people that actually assume their failing culture is superior.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

The "music" isn't a cause, it's a reflection. Plenty of middle class and wealthy white kids listen to that crap and they don't have ghetto culture and crime issues. For them the "music" is vicarious but for the troubled black youth it's more of a reflection of reality.

 

[EverCurious]

If music is a reflection, I'm not sure what my collection says...

I listen to pretty much everything but modern country and rap (I don't like modern "cry-baby" country, and the silly rhyme and talking in rap makes it, idk less "talent" to me - I'm a singer though so a bit biased) I do like some boom boom boom bass though, I love feeling my music, bass is mostly in my pop. dance or metal.

If I had to pick a favorite genre it'd be between Jazz, I love the sound of good sax (Grover Washington Jr. is my favorite in that field,) OR ultra-modern classical stuff, (Bond being my favorite there, very closely followed by Evanescense who has a metal mix component.)

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I hate to say any music is bad, but you can't deny that rap ruined black culture. It's not just the violence either. It promotes promescuity, irresponsible spending habits, sexism and a complete disregard for authority figures.

Exactly what people said about rock n roll and jazz. Hell I think I've read they said similar things about Mozart.

Kinda hard to say rock and roll destroyed white culture.
Whether rap has done that to the black community is hard to say,but we do know black culture is royally fucked up.

In the entire existence of this country, they are only on their second generation of children born free. And too many that remember and keep the hate alive, on every side, still exist. Black people will be fine, just like the Italians, the Germans, the Catholics, and every other group of people that have been hated in this country were eventually fine.

Unfortunately they appear to be going backwards.
All the immigrants you mentioned improved with each generation while blacks have taken a step back.

The immigrants I listed also weren't discriminated against by law for 200 years.

You just said blacks will be fine,so which is it?
And that doesnt have anything to do with whats happening now.
What may have happened to my ancestors doesnt effect me in the least.
Same goes for blacks. Thats just a cop out.

 

[Roadrunner]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Only a retard would think Rap led to social decline. If you meant being white became less attractive you may have an argument.

It was a main ingredient in the asphalt mix that paved the road to the ethical and moral destruction.

White ethics and morals were always based on hypocrisy anyway. Good riddance. If you mean Rap destroyed that then bravo for Rap.

Rap hasn't destroyed anything but black America and a few wiggers.

Violence and crudity in all the arts have brought all of America down into the sewers though, rap is no more guilty than other forms.

 

[Roadrunner]

Rap I might tolerate, On a rare occasion, but the fact is , the driving force coupled with the nemesis of music itself is AUTO TUNE. You can get a yelping dog to sound like an angel, deceitful, inartistic and fraudulent. Like Milli Vannili. Lip syncing, stealing riffs from other musicians. Originality, and art is lost here.

I hate rap, and I hate cuntree music.

I am an equal opportunity hater.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Violent song lyrics (isn't the music proper) isn't the main issue. Eliminate violent lyrics and our society and culture will still be plagued with violence. Only have to look at other countries where this music is equally popular but they don't have the violence problems we do to see this proven.

Isn't music, videogames, or tv/movies. Isn't even gun availability. Those are the scapegoats pushed by people who understand completely what's to blame but wanna blame something else. A society composed of non-violent people can have access to all the guns and violent material they can get, but not being violent to begin with, they wont resort to them.

As I've said and made threads about numerous times now, the overriding reason for a violent society is a violent repressive religion. And it isn't Islam... While that's as violent, it isn't the majority religion in the US.

Christianity is the primary source of social violence. When your religions deifies a celibate man, and the 2nd highest ranking figure (Paul) also being celibate says things like it's best for a man not to touch a woman...That anti-human nature tenet results in sexual repression, mysogony, and self-harming behaviours. This isn't opinion, this is empirical fact.

If you really wanna curtail violence, fight the actual problem, not the scapegoat.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I wonder how Miranda Lambert's music would be classified since her songs about self defense do include lyrics about having to use a gun.

God bless you and her always!!!

Holly

 

[Asclepias]

Black artist to me are B.B King, Billie Holiday. Musicians, artists, Rap performers wouldn't understand art and subtlty. Rap BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, all sound and fury, signifying NOTHING.

You must be suffering from old age or something.